Spray-discharge equalizer.



F. (BALD-WELL. SPRAYDISCHARGE EQUALIZEH'. APPLIQATION FILED AUG.23. 1915.

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To all whom z'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, FBANK CALDWE L, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamiltoni and State of Ohio,'have 111-. vented a certain "new and useful Improve.

ment in Spray-Discharge fEqualizers, of-

which the following is a specification.

' Thisinvention relates to fuel-gas equal izers' or receptacles, in which the gases are intended to be uniformly mixed and d scharged into' the power-cylinders of automobile or like engines using gas, gasolene. *or kerosene or other combustible liquid fuels.

The object of the invention herein and the details of its structure will be fully hereinafter referred to in connection with the description of the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the equalizing-receptacle, shown surmounting an inlet, secondary mix-- ing-eoil, which latter is in elevation and also surmounts the ordinary carbureter or prl- Iiiary mixing-chamber, suitable gas and air intakes being shown in connection w1th sa1d carbureter; and Fig. 2, a broken, sectional elevation taken omthe dotted-line a, a,'off

' "throng Fig. 1. v 1 indicatesthe ordinary carbureter, or pr1- mary mixing-chamber, of any suitable con struction and having a gas or oil intake-2 and an air-intake 3.

4 indicates a coil of pipe of any desired number and pitch of convolutions to uit the capacity of the device, taken as'a w ole herein, that includes, also,-the said primary mixing-chamber as well as the final equalizer. This 'coil has a horizontal flange 5 at its lower end for coupling with the upper exit-formationfi on the carbureter 1 and it also has a similar vertical flange? at itsupper end that is connected to the boss or, inletformation 8 that opens sidewise in the pendent, centrally-alined chamber 9. extending from the tapered bottom 10 of the equalizing-receptacle 11..

The equalizing-receptacle 11 has anelom gated but'narrow chamber that has an'up-s per, horizontal capping-wall 12 from which is extended downwardly a series of vertical partitions or webs 13 that form battle-plates in the upper portion of the equalizing-chamber. These webs13 are preferably made integral ,with the side and top walls of the equalizing-chamber and extend transversely Specifications Letters Patent. Applicationflled-August'23, 1915. Serial No. 46,864.

Patented May 1, ram.

and in open array across the width of said.-

chamber', suitable outlet-openings .14 being provided in the ofl side-wall of the chamber 11 for the discharge of the properly mixed gases into the several englne-cylmders': The outlets 14 are located at equal. distances apart in relation to the said webs 131so that the finally agitated and admixedgases are equally liberated from the main part of the chamber 11, below the lower edges of said webs, into said engine-cylin- I dots and whereby each engine-cylinder has a uniform supply of the now homogeneous mixture and thus preventing any unequal distribution or quality of said vapors from the parbureter into said cylinders in use. A suitable,-short nozzleformation or shoulder 15 is provided on theiouter face of the said ofl side of the equalizing-chamber 11 condevice.

In the operation of the device herein shown, the as or oil and the air are independently l1 erated into the carbureter or i primary mixing-chamber under suitable valve-control as customary. The admixture from said carbureter then ascends in the coil 4 where it is again thoroughly mixed in its passage through the coil, the circuitous passage through the coil assuring such thorough mixing while in transit from the primary mixer or carburetor. The vapor then further ascends or passes from the coil 4 into the chamber or receptacle 11 where it expands and becomes thoroughly agitated or what may be termed churned into. avol- -ume of homogeneous. vapor that arises or passes onward 111130 the separate or part1-' tioned chambers provided by the webs 13, the, latter splitting such volume of homogeneous vapor, that has now become a fixed gas, into practically equal lesser volumes or charges that thence pass laterally, under equal distribution, through the orifices 14 into the successive engine-cylinders. The

webs 13 form biafie-plates that retard and otherwise form a more direct passage, it being important that all outlets 14 shall be equally provided with power-vapor, thoroughly mixed and equally distributed to all the cylinders alike. Thus all the outlets or escapes 14 have a uniform quality of gasdischarge and all the engine-cylinders are under an equal prcssure for work. Thus no cylinder has any advantage over the other in its supply of power vapor or gas that is not richer in one cylinder than it is in any of the others.

I claim z- 1. A manifold comprising a shell having a lower intake and upwardly projecting parallel side walls connected at their upper ends, and one of which has a horizontal series of laterally opening outlets adjacent its said upper end, a top wall connecting the said upper ends of said side walls, the other side wall having its'upper end rounded adjacent the top wall and opposite the said outlets, and transverse partition plates connecting said side walls and arranged between the several outletsof the series, each of said partition pla'tes depending from the top wall-to a point below the lower edges 01 said outlets. f

2. A manifold comprising a shell having a horizontal series of outlet openings adjacent its upper end, and a series of partition plates extending transversely therein and across the same between the several outlet openings, each of said plates depending from the upper end of the shell to a point below the lower edges of the said outlets.

FRANK CALDWELL. Witnesses:

JOHN ELIAS JoNns, BERL B. RIGDoN.

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